HSE Specialist

Our company compensation and benefits program includes,

• Medical, Dental, vision coverage
• Company provided life insurance and short-term disability
• Flexible spending accounts and HSA plans available
• Competitive 401(k) plan with company match and defined contributions
• Short-term incentive bonus program
• Fitness Center and Weight Watchers membership remimbursement
• Other available benefits include, Hospital Indemnity Insurance, Identity Theft Protection available and group rates available for MetLife Home and Auto Insurance as well as Nationwide Pet Insurance

Safety Representative has responsibility for the following:

• Must follow Ahlstrom-Munksjö’s manufacturing and hygiene processes, procedures and policies, as applicable, to the position’s areas of responsibility, in order to meet and maintain the safety, quality, and regulatory compliance requirements for each grade of paper.
• Walk the manufacturing floor on a regular basis to establish a Health and Safety presence and provide support.
• Support the Health Services team.
• Provide support in the Workers Compensation program with an emphasis on process improvement and cost reduction.
• Evaluate, develop, deploy and monitor safety and health programs, procedures, policies, and standards to ensure compliance with federal, state, local, customer, and Company safety and health standards and requirements.
• Provide support to the manufacturing leadership team in safety compliance, employee ownership and safety accountability.
• Transform the culture of safety leadership and responsibility from functional leadership to manufacturing ownership and personal accountability.
• Provide focus, direction, leadership, training and technical expertise to tactical teams and committees, such as the Joint Safety Committee, First Responders, etc.
• Identify, implement and solidify best-known preventive/compliance safety and health standards and practices into all operations.
• Develop, implement and administer an internal safety and health hazard/risk assessement and standards compliance auditing processs designed to validate adherence to best-known standards and practices.
• Lead root-cause analysis investigations procedure/process designed to reveal and capture intellectual wisdom from all near-miss and/or failure occurences. Communicate post-incident and near-miss findings through written and vebal communications and etailed incident investigaions.
• Lead continuous improvement processes to identify and eliminate high-risk tasks trhough review of historical incident data; leading/warning indicators; plant, process, and equipment audits; job and activity ovservations; and other related methods.
• Provide applicable management/agency notification, oversigth, interface, and coaching and serve as the point of contact for all inquiries, communication and intervace with Federal, State, and Local agencies/authorizites.
• Ensure safety and health is considered in all appropriate business activities and that safety pre-checks are completed prior to all facility, equipment, process, technology and/or raw material modifications/changes.
• Ensure adequate safety and health controls are properly designed, installed, trained and operating on all equipment.
• All other assignments assigned by management

This is not an exhaustive list of duties or functions and may not necessarily comprise all the “essential functions” for purposes of the ADA.

Requirements

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis
• Bachelor's degree in Safety or related field and prior experience in a manufacturing environment
• Must follow Ahlstrom-Munksjo's manufacturing and hygiene processes, procedures and policies, as applicable to the position's areas of responsibility, in order to meet and maintain the safety, quality, and regulatory compliance requirements for each grade of paper.
• Good written and verbal communication skills as well as teamwork skills.
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Regular attendance at work is required. Ability to work additional hours dring the week, on weekends, or outside of regular office hours may be required
• Experience in pulp and paper mill operations is a plus.

Become a part of the team! Equal Opportunity Employer (m/f/d/v/so)

Ahlstrom-Munksjö is a global leader in combining fibers into sustainable and technical advanced specialty materials. Our purpose is to Purify and Protect, with Every Fiber, for a Sustainable World. Our vision is to be the Preferred Sustainable Specialty Materials Company for all our stakeholders. We serve five growing and distinctive end markets, which form the basis for our five divisions: Filtration, Food & Consumer Packaging, Healthcare, Building Materials, and Technical Materials.

Our annual net sales 2021 amounted to EUR 3.1 billion and we employ some 8,000 people. Read more at www.ahlstrom-munksjo.com